On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:42:28PM -0600, Taral wrote: > Wasn't there some environment variable that packages were supposed to > use to determine if they should build in parallel? I just ran across a > package that uses -j3 by default, and it's quite annoying on my UP > machine. > Try info make, search for MAKEFLAGS, Node: Options/Recursion. export MAKEFLAGS=j1 seems to be what you want. Gordon Sadler